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Spring may not officially start until March 20, but with daylight saving time right around the corner (March 8) and more sunny skies on the horizon, things are starting to feel fairly spring-like around these parts. (Sorry, East Coasters and everyone else still waiting to thaw out from winter.) As the seasons change so do …

A retrospective of one of America’s most famed and cherished fashion designers, Oscar de la Renta, will make its world premiere in San Francisco next year, bolstering the Fine Arts Museums’ reputation as a venue for blockbuster fashion including the Vivienne Westwood, Yves Saint Laurent, Balenciaga, Jean-Paul Gaultier retrospectives since 2007. The exhibition, to be …

The Apple Watch was officially rolled out last September at Apple’s Cupertino headquarters and to fashion insiders, but the rest of us can see 12 pages worth of life-size detail in an ad appearing in March’s Vogue magazine. This isn’t the first glimpse, of course: China Vogue showed the watch on model Liu Wen on its …

Guest blogger Janna Mandell scoured the Fall 2015 runways for the best new makeup trends. From dramatically drawn eyes to barely-there palettes, the New York runways were all over the map when it came to makeup trends. Now that the fashion set has moved on to London, it’s time for us to pick some favorites …

When Marc Jacobs goes with a theme, he goes all out. Walking into the Park Avenue Armory, guests were handed chilled vodka on silver trays — a fitting way to warm up on a freezing night given the collection that was to come. The tented set inside the cavernous space (which days before had been …

New York Fashion Week isn’t just about the big, established players. The next generation of designers is represented with two schools from San Francisco presenting at Lincoln Center, The School of Fashion at Academy of Art University and The Art Institutes. Watching the diversity of talent of the student collections on the runway you sometimes ask …

With collections as aesthetically rich as the ones produced at Rodarte season after season, the game of interpreting the influences can be a bit like analyzing poetry or dissecting themes in ultra-abstract art: Sometimes, what you see is not actually what you get. The eye of the beholder frequently reveals more about what the viewer …

It’s finally happened. Coachella 2015 is still two months away and already we’ve hit peak festival fashion. This not-so-starting revelation comes courtesy of H&M. The retail giant has just announced a collaboration with Coachella, aptly titled H&M loves Coachella. Although H&M has been a longtime sponsor of the festival and even used it as a …

When it comes to specialty retailers showing at New York Fashion Week, J.Crew led the way in 2011, and their presentation remains one of the most coveted and well-attended of the season. For fall 2015, two seemingly separate, but complementary stories emerged on the men’s and women’s sides. While the men’s collection was inspired by the utility …

After a spring collection from Prabal Gurung filled with embellishment and print (ruffles, feathers and images of mountain peaks a la Gurung’s native Nepal), the designer simplified for fall with a streamlined silhouette consisting of generous slip-dresses and sheathes. From irridescents to turtlenecks and fur shawls the Gurung collection also featured some of the key …